OMG! Jackie Chan has an Arcade Fighting GAME! Yessss!

“I’m Jackie Chan. This is my game!” Hell yes. I freaking LOVE Jackie Chan, I never even knew this existed! It’s called Fists of Fire. I WANT THIS.

And just as it should be there are THREE Jackie Chan’s in the Fists of Fire, each with a different costume and fighting style!

Haha, I love the jackie move where he lunges at you with his butt -“Drunken Woman Style” from Drunk Master. Watch this below now if you have never seen it.

More details of the actual game:

“The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan (カンフーマスター ジャッキー・チェン?) is a 1995 fighting arcade game developed and published by Kaneko. It features the Hong Kong celebrity, Jackie Chan, who was also the producer of it, while it also features other actors from some of Jackie Chan’s films. Currently, the arcade game is quite rare.

The game was later updated and retitled as Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Jackie Chan Densetsu (ジャッキー・チェン FISTS OF FIRE 成龍伝説, lit. “Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Legend of Jackie Chan”?).

Jackie Chan in Fists of Fire: Jackie Chan Densetsu is an upgraded version of The Kung-Fu Master Jackie Chan that was also released the same year exclusively for the arcades, and was the very last fighting game Kaneko released before their bankruptcy in 2006. It adds a desperation move system, an improved combo system with a special combo counter above the lifebars that records the highest number of combos during a match, and an “escaping” feature where players can struggle out of combos or stand up as fast as possible by rapidly moving the control stick and tapping the buttons simultaneously. Fists of Fire also makes all three versions of Jackie Chan into playable characters expanding the roster up to nine playable characters, and makes adjustment to the character balance by strengthening and weakening the statistics of certain playable characters from the first game, while adding and removing a few moves to some of them. The palettes of Lau, Yeung and Thorston were heavily modified as well. The opening intro is a modified version of the first game’s intro, but the rest of the game’s graphics are not that different.” -ZDLR221 on Youtube

I forgot to mention this if you watch Jackie Chan movies or any Chinese movies, always set the language to Chinese with English subtitles. I know it is a pain to read but the acting is more genuine when they speak in Chinese and you don’t have to listen to the gawd awful dubs.

You ARE watching for his amazing choreography, fast paced fight scenes, brilliant use of props, and the somewhat oddball slapstick humor that occurs from it. It’s interesting that you can have incredibly fast, badass fights and stunts combined with a bit of humorous situations, a nice change from people who take themselves entirely too seriously such as Jet Li

It’s also interesting that very few of his movies are actually comedies, just the blend of the unusual situations tends to make things funny even when very few or no jokes happen.

To be fair, not EVERY role Jet Li has done has been a serious one. He has done a few movies at least wherein the character he played was more whimsical, and the much more recent Forgotten Kingdoms did have him play a character who wasn’t entirely serious, as well as playing the Monkey King.

But I agree, you don’t watch Jackie Chan for thought-provoking story-telling and Oscar-worthy acting, you watch Jackie Chan for the crazy fun fight scenes. You can say that about plenty of kung-fu flicks as well. It doesn’t hurt when the movies do have both, but its far from essential.

Hey Joe this is completely unrelated to this post but what do you think of Diablo 3 so far besides the server/lag issues? Considering that Blizzard had almost 12 years to work on it, do you think they did a good job?

Uhh…there was always Jackie Chan Stuntmaster on PS1, one of my all-time favourite PS1 game. Check it out Joe, it’s more fun than most crap we get now a days. Hell the animations on that game are better than Skyrim’s and ME’s imho xDDD